I ping-pong back and forth between a self-hosted WordPress blog and a Tumblr-hosted blog every six months; I say this because we are now reaching the abandon-Tumblr-for-Wordpress portion of the cycle. The complexity, the sheer range of things I can do with WordPress, the buttons to push, knobs to tweak, levers to pull and dials to turn is ultimately overwhelming, so I cut loose for Tumblr.

On every prior switch I have lost readers, content and permalinks. I’ve had to trawl the database, tag posts, cull duplicate and non-me posts. Etcetera. It is a fairly involved amount of work to be undertaken every six months. At this point I have to say that I’m tired of it and after I move back to WordPress this time, I am absolutely finished with Tumblr. I certainly know that over the preceding seasons I’ve carefully tagged posts and hosted all content out of my own Dropbox using a URL structure that’s compatible with my WordPress.

Problem #30 was solved on new ground: my first run through Project Euler was in rigid order of first to last ending at #25. The recent round of solutions mostly cover old ground, which works well for ...